The Assembly adopted this Friday the obligation to equip outdoor car parks of more than 1,500 square meters with photovoltaic shade structures, a measure of the bill aimed at accelerating the production of renewable energy.
The article that provides for this measure was adopted by 42 votes against 6, after debates marked by a series of compromises between the Government and the left, which wanted to harden the system.
The government initially defended a threshold of 2,500 square meters, while environmental representatives and rebels called for lowering it to 500 square meters.
After the discussions, the Government did not oppose a slider placed in 1,500 square meters, as also requested by Macronista deputies, thus giving a new pledge of goodwill to the left whose support it intends to obtain for this bill.
The Senate, which had first examined the text, had replaced the logic of area wanted by the government with a logic of number of localities, maintaining the threshold of 80 seats. Therefore, the Assembly recovered the initial criterion expressed in square meters.
“Accommodation” instead of “exemption”
MPs also voted in favor of environmental amendments that reduce the scope of exemptions provided in certain cases, by giving possibilities for “adaptation” instead of “exemption.”
They also voted for identical amendments presented by deputies from the left and from the majority, such as the former Minister for the Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, eliminating the initially optional nature of the sanctions and making them systematic in case of non-compliance with the ‘obligation’.
A modification to the LFI was also approved with the support of the Government, which doubles the sanctions provided (to 20,000 euros and 40,000 euros, depending on the size of the car park).
Source: BFM TV
